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Vegetarianism[edit]

The article quotes Brockway as saying "I am a vegetarian and I have been so for 70 years. On the whole, I think, physically I am a pretty good advertisement for that practice".

However, Brenner went to Detroit in the 1960s to meet Stanford Ovshinsky at his home. He ate oxtail soup and said in response to his alleged vegetarianism "Oh no, I am long past that. Out of habit."

When Brockway came to Detroit, Ovskinsky invited him to enjoy a home-cooked dinner on Gilchrist to discuss his energy ideas in a comfortable setting. Brockway congratulated Iris on her delicious vegetarian meal, saying that he had never had a better one. Suddenly an ashen-faced Iris called Stan over to speak with her in the kitchen. She told him she realized that she had used oxtail soup in preparing the dish and thought she had better let Brockway know. But when she asked him whether he was a vegetarian out of principle, he replied, "Oh no, I am long past that. Out of habit." A much-relieved Iris called Stan into the Kitchen to explain that she would not tell him after all. "It it was principle I would have to tell." (Lillian Hoddeson, Peter Garrett. (2018). The Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky. MIT Press. p. 98)

It is not possible that he was a vegetarian for 70 years as he was eating oxtail soup and commented "he was long past" his vegetarianism. Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see the above is contradicted by his own book 98 Not Out published in 1986 where he commented on page 122, "I remain a vegetarian, a pretty good advertisement for it after nearly eighty years" [1]. Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:44, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]